The transfer of a Libyan suspect to the United States to stand trial in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing has stoked tensions in Libya, where some in the divided country saw the handover, under murky circumstances, as an abduction rather than an extradition. The United States said on Sunday that the F.B.I. American prosecutors say that Mr. Mas’ud delivered to accomplices the suitcase containing the bomb used in the attack. It was not immediately clear who had handed Mr. Mas’ud over to the Americans. But the possibility that a militia turned him over or that the interim government did so to shore up American support were criticized in some corners of Libya.

Source: Libya Today December 13, 2022 18:23 UTC